Sakai: Assignments

Assignments

The Assignments tool provides the following for instructors and students:

• Instructors can easily collect student papers or files (such as documents and pdf's)
• Instructors can use the Turnitin feature to check student submissions for plagiarism
• Instructors can grade submitted student papers and files online
• Students can see their Assignment grade and instructor feedback online, at anytime

Basics

• How to Setup an Assignment in Sakai: Video | Handout
  • Both the video and Handout contain information on how to set up the Turnitin feature, the plagiarism checker
• How to Grade an Assignment in Sakai: Video | Handout
• Create, Grade, and Download Multiple Submissions and Grade Assignments (University of Florida)

Best Practices

• Best Practices for Assignments handout

Resubmitting Assignments

• Allow One or More Students to Resubmit an Assignment (pdf)
  • Note: Students can not resubmit assignments that are using the Turnitin feature.
• Return a Submission to a Student for Editing (University of Florida)
• Why can't my student resubmit their assignment? (February, 2014)
• How can I submit an Assignment on Behalf of a Student (Loyola)
  • Note: Submitting an assignment for a student works correctly with assignments except for those using the Turnitin feature.

Feedback

• Instructor Summary Comments Display to Students in Gradebook - NEW! (July 2014)
• How do I get Students to look at/listen to my Feedback?
• Provide Feedback for Assignments (Duke)
• Provide students with Feedback in Assignments (UNC-CH)
• How can students view comments that instructors leave for assignments? (Duke)

Turnitin

• How do you set up Turnitin? Follow these instructions: Video | Handout
• How do you grade Turnitin Assignments?
  • After setting up your Turnitin Assignment following the instructions above:
    • Click on Assignments, under your Assignment title, click on Grade.
      • You'll see a new column for each student submission. The column is located next to the Grade column, and is called Turnitin.
      • Below the Turnitin column, you'll see a colored icon representing a Turnitin Report; or "no report", if a student didn't submit the assignment.
    • After you click on a student's Turnitin Report, you may have to click on Accept, to access the student's report.
      • Next, a new browser tab will open, and by default, will display the Originality Report.
      • To find out how to use the Originality report, you can review | Turnitin's Instructor Originality Check information

• Turnitin Options in Sakai Assignments (Rutgers)

Drop Box

• Drop Box (Rutgers)
• What's the difference between the Drop Box and Resources? (Duke University)